Since the both of you are industrialists, may I point you to the ORE Industrial skillbook which unlock the Noctis ship?

This is the boat you were looking for.

Combat ships limited cargo space is a balance thing, as it restricts the combat life of certain types of tanks that use cap boosters for example, meaning that a cap booster is not always the superior choice of tank option.
If Combat ships were to get an ammo bay, this would have to cut into their general cargo bay by the same amount in order to not unbalance things. (Cap Boosters coming under Ammo).

I'd much rather being able to split any cargo bay into 2 partitions, and then I can loot into one, while I keep my ammo and paste and the like in the other, so I can select all and move to hanger easily.

After spending years focusing on the industrial side of the game my wife and i decided to give missions a go. i never would have thought about this if she wasnt constantly running out of ammo or not able to loot because she had too much ammo. but since indy pilots have gotten all kinds of love lately i was thinking it would be nice to add a ammo bay that was separate from the cargo bay so that people could carry enough ammo to get things done and still be able to completely loot a mission.

I think the best idea is to enable partitions within your cargo hold... no ajustments of current sizes just the ability to separate as I think this would save a lot of time when emptying cargo at station whilst maintaining the fittings, ammo and alike that you want to keep onboard

I was actually thinking about this earlier today. I think a charge bay like this would be a great addition to the game, especially to ships like strategic cruisers that need to carry quite a lot of subsystems and a mobile depot in their cargo bay.

i was thinking it would be nice to add a ammo bay that was separate from the cargo bay so that people could carry enough ammo to get things done and still be able to completely loot a mission.

Drones, my son! DRONES!!

They have already their own hold.

Exactly my thought, if ccp could add a drone bay then they could also add an ammo bay where your modules can only load from the ammo bay. Adding a secondary bay would also add greater ease of balance for ships since secondary bays don't get increased with expanders (would be possible to make a ship not be able to cyno without giving it a cripplingly small cargohold).

Except that drone bay needs to be separate to prevent spawning a seemingly infinite spew of drones from ships with large cargobays.

Split bays into regular and ammo bays though removes player choice about what they want to bring.

Sometimes I may bring an entire cargo hold of ammo. Sometimes I may bring no ammo at all, but fill my entire cargo with drones, depots, paste, drugs, replacement modules, liquid ozone, etc.

So since CCP wont be magically adding new ammo bays without reducing the size of the old bays at least somewhat, I am 100% completely and totally opposed to this idea.

Also, fly Amarr. Use lasers. No ammo. Better damage.

Drones, my son! DRONES!!

They have already their own hold.

that or don't loot:)

That's how i run my, jump clone standing generator, eh, missions

I honestly don't think anyone ever flies a combat ship without ammo intentionally. Unless ofc, it's a drone boat. It does not make sense to deprive a combat ship from ammo in favor of anything else. On the other hand, if someday we get an exclusive bay for ammo, nothing would stop you from putting extra ammo on the cargo bay instead of other cargo. I'm all up for flexibility, but ships must be suited to fulfill their roles before anything else.

You mean besides all logi ships, and all ships that can be fit for multiple purposes that may or may not use ammo such as ECM Griffin/Rook/Falcon/Tengu/Scorpion, all recons which frequently fill their highs with smarties/cloaks/neuts but sometimes fit guns/launchers, all the drone boats which have both gun slots and drones but often don't fit guns, all the t2 scanning frigates which have gun slots and sometimes use them on hunting fits, Astero and Stratios which like having an open cargo for exploration loot, neuting ships like the Curse, Pilgrim, Geddon, Bhaalgorn, all HIC's, and all ewar ships with turret/missile slots?

So like half the ******* ships in the game that may or may not have a need for ammo depending on their fitting?

Any particular reason all of these ships deserve to lose a portion of their cargobay to be reserved for ammo that they may or may not actually need depending on fit? That they would rather have for other uses?

There's no compelling reason to add in a ammo only bay unless you want it because you think the overall available volume for fitting stuff will increase (not a good reason), and plenty of downsides to removing part of the primary bay to accommodate the new ammo bay, especially in regards to the vast number of ships that might not need ammo depending on their fits.

Has anyone tried using the new T2 Deep Space Transport with the docking bay for five ships?

I figure this would be the perfect ship to take along for looting missions. Shoot the rats in a PVE ship. Warp to transport. Take out Noctis. Salvage. Warp to transport. Drop loot. If a mission ganker warps in, switch your PVE ship for a PVP ship. There is room for five fitted ships inside, which means a PVP and PVE ship for two people, as well as one industrial (i,e. Noctis). These ships can also be refit inside the bay. They don't take up cargo space either.